In the original novel, Forrest Gump would also have a wrestling career, be friends with an orangutan, and travel to the moon as an astronaut. Part of the deal of author Winston Groom selling the rights to the story was that he could write the first version of the screenplay, which contained most of those elements. Although there was potential, no one thought it was particularly good, and the screenplay was shelved for a while until producer Wendy Finerman, who had been working on L'uomo del giorno dopo (1997) with screenwriter Eric Roth and Tom Hanks, was released from that project by Kevin Costner. She brought Roth and Hanks on board for Forrest Gump, and suggested her friend Robert Zemeckis as director. Despite only having a rough story outline (which reigned in the more outrageous elements of the story), the studio was eager to proceed.

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